Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fourth murky murder in the Campbell and Carter Mysteries. As Christmas approaches in the sleepy English village of Weston Saint Ambrose, the rains bring the wettest winter on record and the farmer's fields are submerged. The water uncovers all manner of things, however, including a dead body, dredged up from its watery grave. Snagging on the jetty of Isolde Evans , the reclusive writer is shocked to recognise the victim. And she's not the only...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie must probe into the private life of murdered Allegra Benedict to solve another grisly crime, in the third novel in this riveting Victorian crime series. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning, a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Victorian England, a Scotland Yard inspector and his wife investigate a condemned man's claim about a seventeen-year-old murder.
A hanged man would say anything to save his life. But what if his testimony is true?
When Inspector Ben Ross is called to Newgate Prison by a man condemned to die by the hangman's noose he isn't expecting to give any credence to the man's testimony. But the account of a murder he witnessed over seventeen years ago...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben and Lizzie Ross return in "a well-plotted and compelling mystery with lively characters and a strong invocation of fog-bound Victorian England" (Promoting Crime Fiction).
It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body of a young woman is found in a dustbin at the back of a Piccadilly restaurant.
Ben must establish who the victim is...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request